📆 Learning the calendar: Activity 📆

For small children in early childhood education, the days of the week are part of the time where they carry out activities such as going to school or going out for the weekend, their personal experience has given them the tool to know when it is night or day and that time passes.

Sometimes they do not know the names of the days that make up the week and they are not aware that human beings have divided the time into days, weeks and months, it takes instruction and learning about the days, weeks and months of the year, especially if the days have a name like the months.

The recommendation to teach children the names and days of the week and months of the year is the play experience or games, it can also be done through songs or songs, but always with a creative artistic and plastic component that ends in the child's learning.

Strategies to teach days and months

• Use a roulette wheel: make a roulette wheel that contains the days of the week with some colors and illustrations, something similar to a needle clock.

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• Songs: some songs have been conceived to learn both the months of the year and the days of the week, it favors the learning of the days of the week.

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• Chained illustrations: a train a worm, drawings that go in parts, one sequenced from another, sequences of the same or similar drawings.
• Letter soup: activities for primary school children.
• Coloring drawings: they can also be sequenced so that the child memorizes the days or the months of the year.
• Calendars: you have to show the children some calendars so they can become familiar with them; Putting one in your room is not a bad idea.

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Creative and plastic activities: the children will color their own calendars so that they become familiar little by little with them.

Activity in the classroom:

Necessary material

• Twelve large folios, one for each month.
• Model calendar or one available from the center.
• Pencils or colored markers.
• Sheet drawing of the month.
• Reinforcement sheet.

Process

• Present several calendars of those in the school or that the teacher provides and verify that the group knows what they are. Use the one that is included.
• Put the calendar sheets on the board, indicate the names of the months and say them all together.
• Write on the chalkboard the dates of the birthdays of each of the students and say aloud the name and birthday of the person. Example: Fatima's birthday is February 15.
• Say that all together will prepare a special class calendar.
• Divide the group into pairs or trios and give them a sheet so they can make their own month following the model that will be stuck on the board in full view of everyone. Colored pencils will also be delivered so they can paint the numbers.
• Once finished the development of each month, hang them all on the walls of the class.
• Tell students to write in a post-it on their partner's birthday. Then each one must paste it in the corresponding place of the calendar.

Variant

• The teacher can write in a post-it the birthday of each student / a. He will leave them all on the table. Each student will get up, take a post-it, read it and paste it in the corresponding place on the calendar.

Extension of activity

• It is recommended that each time there is an important day in the lives of those present, proceed in the same way and so it is reviewed.
• With more age to place the students in pairs or trios to ask other important dates of their country or in their family. Students will record the data in post-it and then proceed to place them in the corresponding place on the calendar.

Reference: https://www.escuelaenlanube.com/aprender-dias-de-la-semana/